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We will never really understand Why you accept our frayed and Fragile attempts at offering More than we could ever hope to give. How you overlook with tender eyes Our many betrayals. And every time we go away– How you wait! Still. We will never really understand Why you embrace our sore and sorry selves When we have not learned our lessons Still. And why every time that happens Our broken hearts are mended But we cry.

But I Could Have Done Better...

fucked up in muck stuck deep into luckless quagmires. blackhole of the past pulling in a tug-of-war of desires. about to drown in neck-deep mud. the more i struggle, the more i seem to sink. hope is the first to give way as i stopped shouting for help because no one is there to listen to pitiful cries anyway. faith is frayed like a single strand unraveling cloth gradually. love is the last to go like a flickering candle in the dark. strangely, just when the candle was blown by the wind ...i f...

while the rains fall in torrents, i roll over to hug nobody in the dark. the sheets are cold as i embrace my longing to keep me awake and asleep. i fight over covers with no one at all-- the bed is crowded with emptiness. i think i could hear breathing in the dark; so i open my eyes thinking it is you and realize it is only me breathing my life away.

while the rains fall in torrents, i roll over to hug nobody in the dark. the sheets are cold as i embrace my longing to keep me awake and asleep. i fight over covers with no one at all-- the bed is crowded with emptiness. i thought i hear a breathing in the dark, so i opened my eyes thinking it was you and realized it is only me breathing my life away.